SEC. 6. Such Act is further amended by adding the following new section:

"SEC. 17. The President shall have power, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to select a Director of Grazing. The Secretary of the Interior may appoint such Assistant Directors and such other employees as shall be necessary to administer this Act. The Civil Service Commission shall give consideration to the practical range experience in public-land States of the persons found eligible for appointment by the Secretary as Assistant Directors or graziers. No Director of Grazing, Assistant Director, or grazier shall be appointed who at the time of appointment or selection has not been for one year a bona-fide citizen or resident of the State or of one of the States in which such Director, Assistant Director, or grazier is to serve."

TITLE II-BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT

SECTION 1. The boundaries of the Badlands National Monument, as established by the Act of March 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1553), shall be, and are hereby, extended to include such lands adjacent or contiguous thereto, in the State of South Dakota, including, but not being restricted to, lands designated as submarginal by the Resettlement Administration, as may be determined by the President, by proclamation, within five years following the approval of this Act, to be necessary for the proper rounding out of the boundaries of said Monument or the administration thereof, providing the entire area of such Monument shall not exceed 250,000 acres.

SEC. 2. That the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1916, entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service and for other purposes", as amended, are hereby made applicable to and extended over such lands as may be added to the Monument under the authority of the foregoing section.

Approved, June 26, 1936.

[H. R. 12876]

AN ACT

To waive any exclusive jurisdiction over premises of resettlement or ruralrehabilitation projects; to authorize payments to States, political subdivisions, and local taxing units in lieu of taxes on such premises; and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the acquisition by the United States of any real property heretofore or hereafter acquired for any resettlement project or any rural-rehabilitation. project for resettlement purposes heretofore or hereafter constructed with funds allotted or transferred to the Resettlement Administration pursuant to the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, or any other law, shall not be held to deprive any State or political subdivision thereof of its civil and criminal jurisdiction in and over such property, or to impair the civil rights under the local law of the tenants or inhabitants on such property; and insofar as any such jurisdiction has been taken away from any such State or subdivision, or any such rights have been impaired, jurisdiction over any such property is hereby ceded back to such State or subdivision.

SEC. 2. Upon the request of any State or political subdivision thereof, or any other local public taxing unit, in which any such project, described in section 1, has been or will be constructed, the Resettlement Administration is authorized to enter into an agreement, and to consent to the renewal or alteration thereof, with such State or political subdivision thereof, or other local taxing unit, for the payment by the United States of sums in lieu of taxes. Such sums shall be fixed in such agreement and shall be based upon the cost of the public or municipal services to be supplied for the benefit of such project or the persons residing on or occupying such premises, but taking into consideration the benefits to be derived by such State or subdivision or other taxing unit from such project,

SEC. 3. The receipts derived from the operation of such projects, described in section 1, in addition to the moneys appropriated or allocated for such projects, shall be available for such payments in lieu of taxes and for any other expenditures for operation and maintenance (including insurance) of such projects. To provide for such payments and expenditures, the Resettlement Administration is authorized from time to time to retain out of such receipts such sums as it may estimate to be necessary for such purposes.

SEC. 4. In connection with any such project, described in section 1, the Resettlement Administration with the approval of the President, is authorized to dedicate land for streets, alleys, and parks, and for any other public use or purpose, and to grant easements.

Approved, June 29, 1936.

[CHAPTER 7-1ST SESSION]

[H. R. 1545]

AN ACT

To provide for loans to farmers for crop production and harvesting during the year 1937, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration, hereinafter in this Act referred to as the Governor, is hereby authorized to make loans to farmers in the United States (including Hawaii and Puerto Rico), for fallowing, for planting. for cultivation, for production of crops, for harvesting of crops, for supplies incident and necessary to such production or harvesting, and for feed for livestock, or for any of such purposes. Such loans shall be made and collected through such agencies, upon such terms and conditions, and subject to such regulations, as the Governor may prescribe.

SEC. 2. (a) No loans shall be made under this Act to any applicant who shall not have first established to the satisfaction of the proper officer or employee of the Farm Credit Administration, under such regulations as the Governor may prescribe, that such applicant is unable to procure from other sources a loan in an amount reasonably adequate to meet his needs for the purposes for which loans may be made under this Act: and preference shall be given to the applications of farmers whose cash requirements are small.

(b) There shall be required as security for any such loan a first lien, or an agreement to give a first lien, upon all crops of which the production or harvesting, or both, is to be financed, in whole or in part, with the proceeds of such loan; or, in case of any loan, for the purchase or production of feed for livestock, a first lien upon the livestock to be fed.

(c) No loan made under the provisions of this Act to any borrower shall exceed $400, nor shall a loan be so made in any calendar year which, together with the unpaid principal of prior loans so made to such borrower in that year, shall exceed $400 in amount: Provided, however, That in any area certified by the President of the United States to the Governor as a distressed emergency area, the Governor may make loans without regard to the foregoing limitations as to amount, under such regulations, with such maturities, and in such amounts as he may prescribe.

(d) Each loan shall bear interest at the rate of 4 per centum per

annum.

SEC. 3. The proceeds of each loan made by the Governor under the provisions of this Act shall be impressed with a trust for the purposes for which loans may be made under this Act, and may be used only for the purposes stated in the application therefor, and such trust shall continue, and the proceeds shall be free from garnishment, attachment, or the levy of an execution, until such proceeds have been used by the borrower for such purposes.

SEC. 4. (a) Fees for recording, filing, registration, and examination of records (including certificates) shall not exceed 75 cents per loan, and may be paid from the proceeds of the loan.

(b) No fees for releasing liens given to secure loans made pursuant to this Act, nor any other fee not specified herein, shall be paid from the funds herein authorized to be appropriated.

SEC. 5. (a) The Governor shall have power, without regard to the provisions of other laws applicable to the employment and compensation of officers and employees of the United States, to employ and fix the compensation and duties of such agents, officers, and employees as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act; but the compensation of such officers and employees shall correspond. so far as the Governor deems practicable, to the rates established by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

(b) Such agents, officers, and employees, or any of them, and the agents, officers, employees, and facilities of the Farm Credit Administration available for use in connection with loans made under the provisions of this Act or of prior crop production, seed, and feed loan Acts of the same general character, may be used by the Governor to perform services for any institution operating under the supervision of the Farm Credit Administration, upon such terms and conditions as the Governor may determine; and such institutions are hereby expressly empowered to enter into agreements with the Governor for such purpose.

(c) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, and for collecting loans made under other Acts of the same general character, including loans made by the Governor with funds appropriated by the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, or the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the Governor is authorized also to use the facilities and services of any agency or corporation operating under the supervision of the Farm Credit Administration, and of any officer or employee of any such agency or institution, or of the Farm Credit Administration, and may pay for such services and the use of such facilities from the funds made available for the payment of necessary administrative expenses, and such agencies and institutions are hereby expressly empowered to enter into agreements with the Governor for the accomplishment of such purposes and to perform the services provided for therein.

SEC. 6. (a) Except with the written permission of the Governor or his duly authorized representative, it shall be unlawful for any borrower to willfully use the proceeds of any loan:

(1) For any purpose other than those specified in the application therefor; or

(2) For the purpose of fallowing, or for the planting, production, or harvesting of any crops on, any land other than that described in his application for such loan.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to make any material false representation for the purpose of obtaining, or assisting another to obtain. a loan under the provisions of this Act; or willfully to dispose of, or assist in disposing of, except for the account of the Governor, any crops or other property upon which there exists a lien securing a loan made under the provisions of this Act.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to charge or accept a fee for preparing or assisting in the preparation of any papers of an applicant for a loan under the provisions of this Act.

(d) Any person violating any provision of this section of this Act shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.

SEC. 7. (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000,000 for the purpose of enabling the Governor to carry out the provisions of this Act.

(b) The moneys appropriated in pursuance of subsection (a) of this section, any amounts collected for services rendered under section 5 (b), and all collections of principal and interest of loans made under this Act may be used by the Governor for making loans under this Act, and for all necessary administrative expenses incurred in connection with the making and collection of such loans.

(c) Expenditures for printing and binding necessary in carrying out the provisions of this Act may be made without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes.

Approved, January 29, 1937.